Symbolism, my friend. The stories make a lot more sense when we peer beneath the surface. That most Christians choose not to is more an indictment on people, not the validity of the religion.
There is no reason to believe that an invisible sky daddy is watching over us, and will punish us with eternal damnation if we don't follow a specific set of arbitrary rules written by some dude 6,000 years ago who hallucinated on a mountain.
Religion has been responsible for more death and destruction than anything else in human history.
God is a fiction created by savages that couldn't comprehend the nature of the universe.
There are an estimated 200 billion stars in our galaxy, and an estimated 400 billion galaxies in the known universe.
It's the height of human hubris to think "God" sacrificed "His only begotten Son" for the third rock from what we call Sol.
Symbolism, my friend. The stories make a lot more sense when we peer beneath the surface. That most Christians choose not to is more an indictment on people, not the validity of the religion.
Symbolism is a lie. Especially when people have died in the defense of it.
Freedom of speech and religion are worth dying in the defense of, aren't they? ;-)
Speech, yes. Religion is the bane of humanity.
Idolatry is the bane of humanity.
Religion is idolatry.
Fundamentalist religion is idolatry. Mystical, multi-faith, skeptical meta-religion like what I advocate is a method for overcoming idolatry.
That's not religion, to me.
Religion is codified bullshit.
There is no reason to believe that an invisible sky daddy is watching over us, and will punish us with eternal damnation if we don't follow a specific set of arbitrary rules written by some dude 6,000 years ago who hallucinated on a mountain.
Religion has been responsible for more death and destruction than anything else in human history.